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Kristján Ingimarsson has curated an exhibition based on a laboratory where six performance artists, along with visual artist Kirsty Whiten, explore the nature of the body and mind.
The performance artists are: Kajsa Bohlin, Lalla la Cour, Anna Stamp, Noora Hannula, Tuba Keleş and Linh Le. Read more about them here.
This new generation of female dancers and performance artists on the international contemporary art scene use themselves and their bodies to explore their relationship with the world. They have expanded their understanding of the life-supporting relationships to include all species and all life. Their working methods are largely characterized by collective processes, hybrid artistic expressions as well as dialogue and exchange with thinkers and forms of life outside their own circle.
The work has resulted in six video works, where the performance artists through their individual practice express their female sensuality and power in close relation to life in different landscapes, listening to the forces of nature, to the food and to the earth.
The meeting with the individual artists’ images, choreography, temperament and landscape is mediated through a six-eyed video camera and is experienced in parallel in six different virtual spaces through VR glasses. With his recordings and editing of the material, Kristján Ingimarsson creates three-dimensional spaces that give the audience room to explore. Based on his physical theater tradition, he gives those who enter the women’s universes a unique and intimate physical spatial experience, where proportions and scale relationships shift in completely unexpected ways.
Femina Fabula is a hybrid between conceptual performance art, visual art and installation art. The exhibition is the culmination of three years of collaboration with dedicated people, including Andro Manzoni and Áki Frostason. The collaboration with their company Folding House Productions has enabled us to transport you into a world of living tableaus, existential poetry and a spherical soundscape that embodies the essence of the primal female power. The works are presented as an exhibition, where the audience has the opportunity to immerse themselves alone with the images of the works.
Creatives & Performers: Anna Stamp • Kajsa Bohlin • Lalla la Cour • Linh Le • Noora Hannula Tuba Keleş
Concept & Artistic direction – Kristján Ingimarsson
Artistic collaboration, empowerment and inspiration- Kirsty Whiten
Production Design Supervision – Eilev Skinnarmo
Workshop choreography inspiration – Thomas Bentin
Pre Production Producer / Production Assistant- Arna Lára Pétursdóttir
Editing – Áki Frostason & Kristján Ingimarsson
Sound design & Foley Artist – Andro Manzoni
Colouring and Visual effects – Áki Frostason
VR-Programming – Haraldur Ölvir Jónsson
Post Production Producer and creative sparring – Maria Westh Hage
Exhibition Organiser and PR – Emilie Storm Petersen
Installation design and building – Peter Rasmusen
Exhibition Consultant – Christina Louise Jørgensen
Trailers and Logo – Christine Hvidt
Poster and layout – Nør Station
Afvikling – Freja Sande
Produced by Kristján Ingimarsson Company
Special thanks to: Unnur Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir – Þórey Birgisdóttir – Nana Lind – Mette Rønne – Jacob LaCour – Stefan Stanisic – Henrik Vestergaard Friis – Jeppe Lawaetz – David Sebastian Lopez – Jan-Jaap Cramer – Snorre Fuglsang Ruhe – Bergur Bernburg – Torfi Agnarsson – Jesper Pedersen – Pavillon K – Vordingborg Kommune – Statens Kunstfond – Bikubenfonden – Nordisk Kulturfond – William Demant Fonden – Wilhelm Hansen Fonden – Teater Nordkraft – Hålogaland Teater – Folding House Productions.
FEMINA FABULA artists
Kajsa Bohlin, performance artist and acrobat (SE)
Kajsa is a trained circus performer and has toured the world with e.g. Circus La Putyka, Circus Cirkør and KIC. In addition, she is part of the performance collective LUR and loves to explore creative boundaries, with a focus on absurdity and humor.
Noora Hannula, choreographer and dancer (FI)
Noora is an award-winning choreographer and artistic director of the dance theater company The Nordic Beasts. Here she works with themes such as the apocalypse, technology, social media and intimacy.
Lalla la Cour, performance- and trapez artist (DK)
Lalla is a trained circus performer and forms one half of the duo The Amazing Other. With a clear presence and intensity in everything they do, Lalla and Eivind Øverland are an exploring and experimental duo.
Tuba Keleş, performer and biologist (TR)
Tuba is a trained stage artist and has a special talent for clown and buffoon genre. As an artist, she plays with normative societal rules and enjoys pushing the limits of what physics, style, concept and humor can do.
Linh Le, performance artist and climate activist (DK)
Linh is part of a new generation of artists who explore rituals and different ways of being human/species through the body. She has an academic education in performance design and is interested in the philosophy and sensuality of species diversity.
Anna Stamp, dancer (DK)
Anna is a trained dancer and now works freelance as a stage artist. Previously, she was part of the English company Schechter II. With an honest approach to body and movement, she challenges her own physical practice through new collaborations and constellations.